MORTKHE
YATKUNSKI (1895-June 25, 1941)
He was born in Slobodka, near Kovno
(Kaunas), Lithuania. He was a member of
the Jewish national assembly in Lithuania (1923) and in charge of the Jewish
National Fund in Kovno. In 1919 he was a
member of the editorial collective of Di
idishe shtime (The Jewish voice) in Kovno, and until 1934 he served as an
internal contributor to the newspaper. Over the years 1934-1940, he contributed as
well to Dos vort (The word) in
Kovno. He was killed during the German
pogrom of Slobodka Jews.
Sources:
Y. Mark, in Zamlbukh lekoved dem tsveyhundert un fuftsikstn yoyvl fun
der yidisher prese, 1686-1936
(Anthology in honor of the 250th jubilee of the Yiddish
press, 1686-1936), ed. Dr.
Y. Shatski (New York, 1937), p. 252; Yoysef Gar, Umkum fun der
yidisher kovne (Destruction of Jewish Kovno) (Munich, 1948), p. 37; R.
Froym Oshri (Ephraim Oshri), in Khurbn
lite (The Holocaust in Lithuania) (New York-Montreal: Bukh-komitet, 1951),
p. 254.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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